Aziz Hazara Takbir (praying for the god) 2022
Installation view: WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2023 Photo: Furukawa Yuya
Instagram LIVE Streaming! Guided Tour of the MACHINE LOVE Exhibition
We went live on Instagram with a gallery tour from inside the MACHINE LOVE exhibition.
- English Language Tour:
Date and time: Starts around 17:30 on Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Featuring: Martin Germann (Adjunct Curator, Mori Art Museum)
WORLD CLASSROOM Yang Haegue The Sonic Hybrids – Dual Energy Activation Video Now Available
Yang Haegue’s Sonic Hybrids and Sonic Rotating exhibited at the WORLD CLASSROOM are both sound and performance pieces, where bells make sounds whenever the Museum staff members move the works on casters around, or rotate each work with handles. Enjoy watching the “activation” video.
Online Screening: Exclusive for WORLD CLASSROOM Exhibition Visitors
Exclusively for the Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects exhibition visitors, six selected video works are available for viewing online, only during the exhibition period. See details at the venue.
Online Screening Period: Wednesday, May 19 - Sunday, September 24, 2023
See here for the lineup.
MAM Project 030 x MAM Digital: Yamauchi Shota The Planet of Faces
MAM Project 030 x MAM Digital: Yamauchi Shota is our first attempt where a “MAM Digital” program is held in the real exhibition space as part of the “MAM Project” exhibition series that showcases contemporary art in all its diversity.
As part of the generation that has grown up with a post-1995, internet version of reality, Yamauchi Shota (born 1992 in Gifu, currently based in Kanagawa) has been making attempts by myriad means to illuminate the relationship between self and world, and rifts between the world as he perceives it, and as it actually is. Employing a range of wildly different expressive media, from video to sculpture, installation and performance, Yamauchi skillfully switches between clay animation, chroma key, 3DCG, 3D printing, VR, and motion capture technologies. His works are distinguished not only by a technology-driven pursuit of novelty, but by the desire to express raw physicality and the complexity of quintessentially human emotions, contradictory feelings and situations.
The Planet of Faces, a newly-commissioned work for this exhibition, is an online gaming-format video installation modified in real time. People can participate in the work on site via tablet, or access it on a dedicated website from anywhere via PC or smartphone. Players answer a series of questions resembling those of psychological testing to spawn an avatar in the form their own face, morphing in clay-like fashion. This is then uploaded to a server to join other faces congregating on a planet in the work, where they react to each other, generating various dramas. The resulting planet made up of multiple faces constantly in flux will be joined in the Mori Art Museum gallery by a 3D sculpture of Yamauchi’s own face, rendered as an island. Thus this work that exists in both the digital and IRL realms will continue to change throughout the show, in Yamauchi’s words as a “planet where right and wrong, beautiful and ugly cohabit, at times rejoicing, at times sad, at times angry.” Don’t miss this chance to be part of a truly unique work of art.
MAM Project 030 x MAM Digital: Yamauchi Shota
Period: Thursday, December 1, 2022 - Sunday, March 26, 2023
Series “MAM MEETS Museums’ is one of the Mori Art Museum’s undertaking to create opportunities to ‘virtually’ experience art from around the world. The
simultaneous livestreaming will be through the Mori Art Museum’s social media: TikTok; YouTube; Twitter; and Facebook.
Mori Art Museum x S.M.A.K. Live
* Conducted in English-language only
For the first edition, we will be livestreaming a solo exhibition of Anna Bella Geiger, one of the Another Energy participating artists, currently ongoing at S.M.A.K. (The Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art),
Ghent, Belgium.
Date & Time:
18:00-18:30, Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Fee:
Free
Simultaneous Livestreaming through the Mori Art Museum’s social media: TikTok; YouTube; Twitter; and Facebook.
Anna Bella Geiger Installation view: Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging - 16 Women Artists from around the World, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2021 Photo: Furukawa Yuya
Mori Art Museum x Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen Live
* Conducted in English-language only
We will be livestreaming a solo exhibition of Anna Boghiguian, one of the Another Energy featured artists, currently on view at Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany.
Date & Time:
18:00-18:30, Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Fee:
Free
Simultaneous Livestreaming through the Mori Art Museum’s social media: TikTok; YouTube; Twitter; and Facebook.
Anna Boghiguian The Silk Road 2021 Installation view: Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging - 16 Women Artists from around the World, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo,
2021 Photo: Furukawa Yuya
“ARTIST COOKBOOK BY MAM” Has Become a Book, Now Published in Print!
Initially as part of “MAM Digital” content facilitating people to enjoy art while at home, the “ARTIST COOKBOOK BY MAM” project was
launched primarily on social media in May 2020 but it had quickly become one of our most popular projects to date, receiving more than 160,000 “likes” on Facebook. By popular demand, the project in its entirety
is now published in print as a book!
It features photos, drawings and stories behind the artists’ original recipes sent to us during the pandemic from all over the world. The list of contributing artists includes Ai Weiwei, Shiota Chiharu, and
Sopheap Pich (see below for the full list).
Available for purchase at the the MORI ART MUSEUM SHOP (3F, West Walk, Roppongi Hills), MORI ART MUSEUM SHOP 53 (within Mori Art Museum) or MORI ART MUSEUM
ONLINE SHOP.
Taiwan from “Food Photography” series
by Ai Weiwei
Photo: Sergio Coimbra, Washington Borges (Assistant)
“Kusama Lotus”
by Kataoka Mami (Director, Mori Art Museum)
T.V. to See the Sky - Inspired by Yoko Ono’s work, SKY T.V.
* This program will be streamed online, via Zoom. * Advance booking is required.
This event is inspired by Yoko Ono’s SKY T.V. in 1967 for the Lisson Gallery, which she described as “a T.V. just to see the sky.” It broadcasts a live video feed of the sky from above
the building where it was installed—a way to bring the sky inside, even if a space lacked windows. In collaboration with Yoko Ono, the Getty Research Institute and the Feminist Center for Creative Work will present a
24-hour video streaming of the sky via Zoom. A network of international institutions will participate in a live broadcast of the sky transmitted to audiences at home.
At a time of profound revolution and reflection, a time of restricted travel but great desire for connection, we seek to draw upon Ono’s invocation of the sky as a space of generative possibility and renewal.
The event takes place on June 21, 2021 to coincide with and celebrate the Solstice and the Strawberry Moon Eclipse (June 20-24).
24-hour streaming; from 21:42, Monday, June 21, 2021
Fee
Free
* Please see here for list of participating institutions.
Yoko Ono Sky T.V. for Washington 1966/2014 Closed-circuit video installation Dimensions variable Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 2016 Photo courtesy:
William Andrews, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
